Fast Food Workers Demand Higher Wages, To Be Arrested

Fast-food workers strike across country, arrests made (CBS)

Fast-food workers who say they aren't lovin' their wages are striking today in 150 cities to gain support for earning $15 an hour.

The workers, organized under the "Fight for 15" banner, said they are taking a page from civil-rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks, tapping into peaceful civil disobedience tactics to heighten the protest's impact. Home-health aides also joined the demonstrations, indicating the push for higher wages is spreading to other low-wage occupations.

At a McDonald's in Manhattan's Times Square, protestors briefly blocked a street. Several blocks away, more than 100 workers and labor activists gathered in front of a McDonald's near Central Park. As police sought to contain that demonstration, arresting three protestors who tried to disrupt traffic, protestors waved signs that said "McDonald's Won't Listen" and "On Strike to Lift My Family Up."